BOXING.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19725, 16 September 1929, Page 13

BOXING.

• ■» CHBKTCHUICH SPORTS OLUB. At a masting •* tka comwrttaa af tk» Christchureh Ama*eux Beeias aad SyesM cask, tiksee waee present: Maws* B- SI/iviafatoae (ohairman), 3. B. Baybutt, C. M. Tayior, jo*., A- McD. Smith, A- P. Tmm, and H. B. fiawpaon. Kiif Rmith, ol Taranaki, wrote asking fer a with Griffltha, ol Dunedin. Th» matter waa rafsrced to the Hatch CtauajHn for consideration. Tha Southland Boxing Association is endeavouring to match Gardiner aad Speccet. bet Gardiner preferred to wait until the Christchureh tournament on October Slat. The Match Committee recommended that a novice tournament be on October Ist. or aa near to that date aa the ball oould be arranged, and that the Municipal Hall be booked for October 31*t for a touras ment between the champions of various pro vinecs. Mr Fraaer advised that lie had interviewed several champions at the New Zealand championships at Greymotrth and ha waa quite sure that a very high-claes programme could be arranged for thai date Mr J. D. Bavbntt, the manager of the Canterbury team which visited Giey month for the New Zealand championsHipe, retorted at length on the tocrnaruent and on the annual conlerenae of the It aw Zealand Boxing Association. The report was adopted, aid it waa decided to congratulate the two Canterbury title-holders. Carey and Gardiner, on their splendid wins.